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Barometers

Images

  • A doctor inserts a barometer, instead of a thermometer, in a patient's backside: his condition reads "Set fair". Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A doctor asking a patient's wife if she has taken his temperature; she replies that she used the barometer to take his temperature and that, as he was very dry she gave him some beer. Wood engraving by G. King, 1911.
  • Clocks: James Cox's "perpetual motion" self-winding clock. Engraving by J. Lodge, 1774.
  • A maid bringing medicine and soup to her master who has a cold. Lithograph, 1857, after W.H. Simmons after J. Collinson.
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Catalogue

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    A treatise on the aneroid, a newly invented portable barometer. With a short historical notice on barometers in general, their construction and use / By Edward J. Dent.

    Dent, Edward John, 1790-1853. | Date: 1850
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    Miscellaneous experiments and remarks on electricity, the air-pump, and the barometer : with the description of an electrometer of a new construction ... / by A. Brook, of Norwich.

    Brook, Abraham. | Date: 1797
    • Books

    Special offers in eyewear / Optical Department, Gamages.

    Gamages Ltd. Optical Department. | Date: [1930?]
    • Pictures

    Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.

    | Reference: 42544i
    • Pictures

    Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.

    | Reference: 42545i
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